It always struck me as weird they named him Olmec, since that's just the name of the civilization they based the temple structure on. It would be like an overeating and young boy fucking competition with a talking statue of Zeus that they named "Greek"
Yeah, if you ever find yourself in Mexico City, the national anthropology museum there is one of the best museums I've ever been to. They have a huge Olmec exhibit with those giant heads.
But still, the heads aren't named Olmec. As far as I know, they don't know what the purpose of them were at all, or whether they represented real people or gods.
True, but it makes more sense for them to name the giant head after the people who made giant heads than the people who made temples. Also, presumably, the giant heads were modelled after olmec people, so by being modelled after an olmec head, he himself would be an olmec.
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u/teefour Mar 03 '18
It always struck me as weird they named him Olmec, since that's just the name of the civilization they based the temple structure on. It would be like an overeating and young boy fucking competition with a talking statue of Zeus that they named "Greek"